There are 22 Tarot Cards available to collect in Habromania, one for each of the Major Arcana/Fool’s Journey.
wait a damn minute who was the fool again
we have five fully rendered tarot cards designs and two extra roughs
If you wanna see an analysis of each Marjor Arcana card, go to this website.
That’s not what I’m going to do. We’re going to talk about everyone we’re missing!
Obviously we’re missing the rest of the Major Arcana-The Hierophant, The Lovers, Strength, The Hermit, The Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, and The World-and some of the most important characters like the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, Jack Warren, the Caterpillar, and those rats, chess pieces, kitchen workers and flowers.
The tarot cards also represent major events in the game.
Now, I’m going to yell at you about who/what I think will be each card.
The Hierophant is the Caterpillar. Upright it represents knowledge and tradition, downright it’s ignorance and rebellion. The Hierophant is also depicted as an old man on an elevated surface. And the Caterpillar sure is an old geezer on a mushroom that seems big, but only because Alice is three apples tall.
The Lovers-rather obviously-are Charlie and Cordelia. Upright it is love, union, and balance. Upside down it’s conflict and bad decisions. I think we’ll gain the card after a flashback that reveals Cordelia and Charlie’s relationship in the institute. You know, when they were happy.
Cutie patooties.
Strength is bravery upright and insecurity downright. I think this might be one of the rats whose character arc we can help along, probably Stewie. Or it’s a major event where Alice has to be brave, like confronting the Queen about Hatter’s innocence.
I love Stewie, nothing bad can happen to him.
Okay, this might be a stretch, but I think the Hermit is Rosewell Institute. HEAR ME OUT-contemplation, search for truth, inner guidance upright and loneliness, isolation, and losing your way reversed. In theory, the Institute is for getting better and finding yourself. In practice, it’s a prison. Maybe we’ll unlock the card after a flashback revealing one of the main three’s institutionalization (Alice, Charlie, Cornelia).
The Wheel of Fortune will undoubtedly be gained after a major event. It represents change, cycles, and decisive moments (upright) and clinging to control and unwelcome changes (reverse). Which major event? Goood question. We know the wide strokes of the game but not a lot of the details. The best I can guess is the confrontation we’re shown between Alice and Cordelia (with Charlie kidnapped in the background).
The Justice will be the trial-if we ever get the White Rabbit to be our judge. Integrity, cause and effect, and justice upright and corruption, injustice, and dishonesty reversed. In the trial, we’ll finally learn what happened between Hatter and the Queen during their attempted escape that made her hate him so much. And depending on how good our defense is, maybe he’ll get his dues. Depends on what he did really.
The Hanged Man is Jack Warren. Upright is sacrifice and lack of direction, reversed is stagnation and apathy. This boy came back from WW1 a shell of himself and then died in a car crash, something that Alice feels personally responsible for. Tragic, tragic boy.
I'm on the fence about Death. One interpretation could be, upon collecting all the Death and the Human pages, we gain Death straight up as a card. But on the other hand, Death is more than losing your life. As a tarot card it represents transformation and transition (upright) and repeating negative patterns (reverse). So I think it could also be gained upon Alice's growth/shrinking. She has been made to be smaller and quieter all her life, which is sort of what the shrinking represents? And her emotions feel so big which is why it's so hard to repress. Idk.
THE WHITE RABBIT IS TEMPERANCE. He's trying to keep balance and tranquility (upright) in the White Kingdom but is kept from it by the White Queen's stupidity, leading to eternal discord and imbalance. Please give him a break.
I really thought the Devil would be the Cheshire Cat. But as a card, the Devil is oppression, obsession, dependency, and powerlessness upright. But independence, freedom, and release when reversed. So I think the Devil represents Wonderland itself. It traps Charlie, Alice, and Cornelia and they hate it, but they're free from the society above that rejected them. The reversed Devil also represents reclaiming power, which is what Cornelia gets by becoming the Queen of Hearts after being locked inside for years.
The Tower is another major event, a disaster this time. I can't tell which one cause I already covered the trial and confrontation and they're the only two big events we know! The Tower is sudden upheaval and disaster (upright) and disaster avoided reversed. I think it's an event that is majorly influenced by the player's choices to either make Alice more evil or not.
The Star, the Moon, and the Sun represent Alice Warren, Charlie O'Hare, and Cordelia Rosewell. I use their real names because I feel like these cards specifically represent who they were before Wonderland. Alice was hopeful but became despondent, Charlie had illusions that only became worse in Wonderland, and Cordelia was happy but became conceited with delusions of grandeur. The reverse of each card represents who they become in Wonderland.
The World represents returning to the surface and escaping from Wonderland. It is completion and fulfillment as Alice escapes prison, but it's also a lack of closure and emptiness as she leaves many relations behind and could be lobotomized.
In honor of the New Year and the Spider-Verse on the horizon, here is another roster piece I did using the more obscure and overlooked Spider Variants of the multiverse.
After all this time, he was still on point. "I don't like the Winters boy."
It was a Saturday in August, and they were at the beach, a little impromptu gathering of family vacations near the Speirs house on the Cape - Marjorie and Lip and as many children as could be summoned home from college, Dick and Joan and their son, Floyd and Molly and their twins. Harry and Kitty were stuck on the road somewhere and arriving tomorrow - others had sent their regrets. The wind was out and the sun was high and the children were playing, the older ones trying to make sure the younger weren't left out.
This was peace - unless you were Ron, in which case, you were still on patrol.
Billie followed his eyes and snorted - Jack Winters was fifteen and shy and currently being coached through how to hit a volleyball by their daughter. "Please give Ellie some credit, Ron. She's a half a head taller and seven years older. She can take him."
Ron's mistrust seemed wildly misplaced - but then, he didn't see her the way her mother did. Ellie Speirs was twenty-two and gorgeous, with the kind of fearless confidence that comes with having lived in three foreign countries, speaking two languages, and knowing exactly who you are and where you come from.
Ron made a noise of dissatisfaction and returned to his beer and his book, still surveying over his glasses. But he needn’t have worried - Joan had raised her son better than that, and Ron, his daughter.
Of all the things her daughter had become, Billie was more proud of that - that she knew her worth, and wouldn't compromise on it, ever. She'd tried to make her see that, and if she hadn't always been successful, some days, that was just the way of the world. And her father loved her. If some things changed, some would stay the same - and her husband being a protective devil was one of them.
Here, they all were, nearly thirty years later, graying and putting on weight and settling into middle age, their youth comfortably behind them. There had been two more wars that were not wars, and they had watched from the sidelines, in the main, no longer the front line but the rear, training the new leaders in the lessons they themselves had learned all those years ago.
But there would always be something of that, in all of them, that desire to lead and defend. Billie grabbed for Ron's hand on the arm of his chair and stroked his knuckles. Still the man I married. And I can love that, too.
